Setting standards in the West: CB Conway, science and school reform in British Columbia, 1938-1974

From: Canadian Journal of Education | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Setting Standards in the West: C. B. Conway, Science, and School Reform in British Columbia, 1938 -- 1974

Thomas Fleming university of victoria

David Conway twain sullivan school, houston, b.c.

C. B. Conway headed the British Columbia Department of Education's Division of Tes ts, Standards, and Research from the late 1930s to the mid - 1970s. Through Conway and his research bureau, the department began to modernize its pedagogical foundations by embracing the scientific measurement movement that had been transforming education in the United States since the early 1900s. But more than this, ...

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